The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-26
Baseball Notes.


the Wilkesbarres.
Knowton, who failed in Detroit and Kansas
City, Is pitching in Buffalo.
The Danville en- Platts beaten yester-
day by the Champaign club. to 3.
At Charlottesville. yesterday. the Reds de-
feated the Joliet, ILL.,, club II to 4.
Charles Daniels. late manager of the defunct
Hartford team, has signed with the National
League as umpire for the remainder of the sea-
Titcomb has turned ont to be mean twirler
He struck out sixteen of the Rochesters and
Buffalos in his last two games, and allowed them
but seven clean hits.
Harry Lyons, late of the Binghamton IN Y J
club, has signed with the Philadelphia club.
Lyons is a Philadephian and is said to be a
good batter base-runner and fielder.
There is talk of ten clubs in the New England
League next season. to include Worcester,
Springfield. Salem, Lowell Brockton. Hart
ford, New Haven, Bridgeport, DanburY and
Meriden.
John Stricken. captain of the Cleveland Base
ball Club. was yesterday fined $40 and costs in
the Police Court for playing ball Sunday.
The State law prohibits and a city ordinance
permits baseball on Sunday. Stricker's case
was test
Manager Caylor says most players paid to
extent that is not justified by their drawing
powers. He knows of one club which on an av-
erage pays every man in its nine $40 for
every game played, and he speaks of one
pitcher who gets about $50 for every game he
pitches
Chicago Inter Ocean: The Philadelphia
players are great eveners in fact, they the
leaven of the League. But for them Chicago
would be first. But for them Detroit would
have big lead. But for them New York would
be tied with Chicago and Detroit. They are to
be counted every time.
Kirby passed through the city last night on
his way to ST. Louis. He says he has been
released by Cleveland, but expects to be within
a few days. He is going into the service of the
st. Louis fire department. but is looking to a
return to the ball field next year. His arm, he
says, is in bad condition.
When the season is over and this champion
ships of the League and Association are settled,
the St. Louis Browns and the League champion 8
will play a series for worlds honors. President
Won der Abe says that no matter who wins the
League pennant at least two games of the series
will be played in the East, one in Boston and
one in New York.
Wiiafnson's hit in Boston the other day was
the longest seen on the grounds since 1879, when
big Jones cleared the centerfeld boards. The
grounds were fenced in in 1871, and in all these
sixteen years but two balls have been hos:ed IL
a straight line out OF the inclosure Some idea
of the immensely of the hit may be given from
the fact that the ball travelled 400 feet in the air.
and then, bounding off the second fence, rolled
200 feet further, making the total distance 600
feet. This hit tied the game.
Chicago correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch asked President Spalding about the in
situations that there was som thing crooked in
the playing of the Chicago club. He replied:
''Those insnuatiohs come annually Thew gen.
orally begin with a declaration that Chicago
don't want the championship this year. Then
follow intimations that Arson will play SO as to
throw the pennant this that club. All
this is absurd. If we were to sanction any such
policy the League wouldn't survive a season.
Why. take John B. Day, Mr.. Soden. Mr.. Rogers.
Mr.. Reach, MIR. Nimick, Mr.. Hewett, Mr. Brush
and the men who responsible for the exist
ence of the League. Do you suppose would
countenance any attempt suggestion of bar
teri No. sir; every game must be played it's
merits, and both clubs must play to win, or
goodbye to honest ball playng"